The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eleven new cases of yellow fever
one death were reported from Tampa
Oct. 80. The weather was cooler, and
the outlook more favorable. Their
nometer, So degrees
Queen Victoria has another grand
child-the Princes Beatrice, who mar
ried Henry, of Battenberg, having just
been delivered of a daughter.
Gen. Ferron, Minister of War, has
prohibited military music at Clermont-
Ferrand, because it promoted demon
strations in favor of Boulanger.
Johns Hopkins University holds
1900 shares of Baltimore and Ohio
stock, which has steadily yielded $780,
900 in income. The institution may
really be crippled by the depreciation
of this investment.
DR.. Schliemann has made his will,
leaving his valuable collection at Ath-
ems to the Berlin Ethnelogical Mu-
scum. The institution will ultimate
ly, therefore, contain all the collec-
tions of antique relics made by the
learned gentleman.
The present Yale freshman class,
the largest that ever entered that COL
lege, is said to be the weakest fnan-
cially. Fully half of them uu not
spend over S. week. There are some
that spend more. One Of them is
young Armour, of Chicago, whose al
lowance is 500 a week.
Toe z Sp,;tb avnroee m ,ooccoprar
who recently killed two train robbers
near Ell Paso, Texas, was paid $4,000
by order of Governor Ross as reward
for his act. Smith will probably get
$1,000 more from the Express Com
pany and $1,000 from the railroad
company, making total of 5000.
Nineteen Italians who came to this
country on the independents from
Italy have been found in Chicago and
one in Baltimore and their effects
burned. Thorough search is being
made for the others, as there is danger
of cholera breaking out next spring
from the infection Of their clothing.
>Noyember 26, has been
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ton to decide whether Atlanta ceEcs
continue as a nominal prohibition
city. The registration books are now
open and the voters are registering
every day. Both sides are actively at
work, and the election promises to be
one of great interest.
San Diego, CAL, has inaugurated a
nf - Hgl-
fine brass band of that ty has been
sent on a tour over the North, even to
Boston, blowing about San Diego, and
distributing illustrated and descriptive
papers, at q cost of about $4,000. That
is certainly new departure in the
real estate advertising line.
4 terrific gale ragged in the south of
England on Saturday night, Oct. 80.
Many buildings were unroofed, and
there were numerous shipping casual
ties in the channel. A boat with a
party of twelve persons, which left
Weymouth for nights trawling, was
capsized and ten of the party were
drowned. A sloop was wrecked off
Dunkirk and four men were drowned.
Paris was also visited by severe gale,
which did considerable damage to
Among the successful men who
were telegraph operators in early life
are Andrew Carnegie, Theodore y.
Vail, of the Bell Telephone Company;
Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Georgia; Ex-Gov.
Cornell, of New York; w. J. Johnson,
he publisher; E. H. Johnson, presi-
lent of the Edison Company; ThoS. \.
Edison, d. H. Bates, the president of
he Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph,
md Col. Richard Clowry, Western SUI
Of the Western Union.
The Secretary of State is in receipt
# note from the Chinese minister at
Washington, returning by direction of
lis government, portion of the Rock
springs indemnity lately appropriated
" Congress, which represents the
mount of six claims, which, in the
nal distribution Of the appropriation,
ave been ascertained to be duplica-
ions. Mr.. Bayard has acknowledged u
his honorable action of the Chimes
government. The amount so refunG
ill be covered into the treasury